What's your favorite villainous creature type?

[Ambrus]

Speaking as either a player or DM, which creature type have you seen used to good effect as the primary villains in your campaigns and which would you wish to see used more often?

Vote for all those that appeal to you. If you vote for the unlikely types (i.e. Animal, Construct, Magical Beast, Ooze, Plant and Vermin) please describe how you'd imagine they could be used effectively as villains.

 

[Sejs]

See And Like: Humanoids, Aberrations, Outsiders, Undead.


Would Like To See More Often: Fey.

 

[Torment]

I'm in the same boat as Sejs,

I use alot of humanoids, outsiders and undeads. A little less aberrations, but I'm starting to think about using a beholder as a recurring thorn in my PCs side.

I would like to use alot more fey.

 

[Tonguez]

Abberation, Fey, Humanoid, (Monstrous Humanoid too)

I can imagine how magical beast might work as could certain constructs but Animal, Ooze, Plant and Vermin just seem a bit too 'mindless' for effective villainy

 

[Thomas Percy]

Demon.

 

[diaglo]

as a player i like the dead villan type. the ones slain by my own dice.

 

[Fishbone]

Races of the Fey is a book that needs to be printed, they are a criminally underused part of Dungeons and Dragons. My hit list
Aberrations
Monstrous Humanoids
Magical Beasts
Outsiders(not necessarily demons all the time, Slaadi, Xorn, etc)

 

[Tonguez]

Magical Beasts

So which Magical Beasts have you seen/used and how?

 

[awayfarer]

I have a special fondness for aberrations. They're just awesome as villains. I just like the idea of a foe you can't really empathize or reason with.

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

I too have a fondness for aberrations
If they'd just produce more resources for Fey I'd use them a lot more than now.

Otherwise
Humanoids(I've redrawn giants and monstrous humanoids as subtypes of humanoid)
Outsiders(they become more important as level increases)

As is I have to create Fey myself if I want to use them. Personally I see Fey as being far better embodiments of chaos than Slaad. I'd like to use them more but what is needed is a way to make our own unique Fey quickly. Such as a series of tables by CR that have the appropriate base abilities then a series of tables for variant special abilities that can be applied quickly to create the mechanical side of the creature so we can then describe the Fey however we want.